December 13, 2005 08:25PM
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I'd bet most of the manufacturers had their lemons particularly where they were forced to adhere to specifications provided by company officials of a particular rr. that may have been experimental in nature. I suggest this rhetorically not knowing a specific example.
I kind of get excited by Alco, probably because of working around SVRy 19. I'd guess that in most cases locomotives that survived the end of steam in 50's to continue to run today like the 19 must have been pretty good engines at the least or they would have been scrapped long before steam was supplanted by diesel.
Just for fun, I'd suggest with the other comparisons to car mfgs. Heisler would be the BMW of geared locomotives.
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